Abstract

of his own earlier work on the 'public man' in State and Intellectual in Imperialjapan (1988). Building upon critical responses to that work and a number of recent treatments of these two major themes, the author suggests a possible new interpretative framework for fascism, and goes on to explore the paradox of insider resistance, outsider conformity' in somewhat greater depth than in his original work.The essay concludes with some observations on the relevance of the categories of the 'public' and 'public man' to the discussion of the intellectual underpinnings of Japanese democracy.

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